Annotation:Port a' Bhodaich

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PORT A' BHODAICH. AKA and see “Carle's Rant (The).” Scottish, Strathspey. A Mixolydian. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB'CBB' (Kerr): ABCD (Athole, Gow, McGlashan). Port = 'tune' and bhodaich = old man, for 'the old man's tune'. John Glen (1891) finds the earliest appearance of this tune in print in Alexander 'King' McGlashan's Collection of Strathspey Reels (1780/81).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Gow (Complete Repository, Part 1), 1799; p. 6. Kerr (Merry Melodies, vol. 1), c. 1880’s; Set 26, No. 5, p. 16. Laybourn (Köhler’s Violin Repository, Book One), 1881; p. 22. McGlashan (Collection of Strathspey Reels), c. 1780/81; p. 28. Stewart-Robertson (The Athole Collection), 1884; p. 7.

Recorded sources: ABC Classics 476 8036, Chris Duncan, Catherine Strutt, and Julian Thompson – "The Red House: The Heritage of the Scottish Fiddle" (2006).